If microwaves brought about a revolution in foodprocessing last century, 3D printing will do the same for this century. I love the tech but I think I’ll stick to home cooking. 🙂
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This entry was posted on Monday, April 9th, 2018 at 7:57 pm and tagged with 3D, food, NASA, pizza, printing and posted in food, technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
I totally agree about sticking to home cooking! Most of the video looked more like computerized dispensing of “real” food ingredients. Cool idea but it sounds sooooo weird to me!
Mass production – the epitome of processed food. I eat very little of it as it is. This might be a boon for organic food producers too as people are grossed out by the increased processing. 🙂
The problem is not in the technology to make the food on demand, it is that everyone’s tastes are different. To make the product mass marketable they have to create a way for people to customize what the machines produce. I think it will be great if people who were unable to create their own home cooked meals could get fresh created tasty good nutritious meals with a home machine. Clean up might be a problem? Hugs
-grin- I’d query the nutrition but agree on the need to customise to taste. I imagine that eventually we’ll have 3D printers in every home. You’ll stock up on ‘materials’ and use ‘recipes’ to tinker with the taste.
What I /fear/ is that this tech. will be hijacked just like everything else and the ‘materials’ will be full of processed chemicals and minimal nutrition. We already know that vitamins don’t work half as well as fresh food in its natural state, so the chance of them working in an ultra processed state is…slim.
Unfortunately, such concerns have never stopped tech companies in the past and I see a day when printers will replace all other cooking appliances in the average home. Owning a stove/oven with the fuel needed to run it will become the province of the well-to-do only. 😦
Yeah. I think though that our days are numbered. Pre-cooked, frozen, tinned, packaged food is now the norm for most people. Once the printers are cheap enough, convenience, low cost and no cooking skills will catapult them into food production for the common man. 😦
Exactly. At the moment, the multinational Agriceutical companies control the bulk of the seed. Hiding the provenance of the ‘materials’ used to create printed food is a logical step. 😦
An end to world hunger? First World, maybe. We’ll just die of diet-induced heart attacks of something.
I doubt the Third World will be able to afford the tech for a long time to come. 😦
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April 25th, 2018 at 1:45 am
Sounds like it still needs a lot of work. I’m keen to try one of these gummy things. I bet I’d be happy with the outcome.
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April 25th, 2018 at 8:25 am
lmao – I’m not sure I’d be game to try it but, okay. 😀
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April 13th, 2018 at 7:32 pm
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April 13th, 2018 at 10:28 pm
Danke 🙂
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April 11th, 2018 at 12:09 am
I totally agree about sticking to home cooking! Most of the video looked more like computerized dispensing of “real” food ingredients. Cool idea but it sounds sooooo weird to me!
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April 11th, 2018 at 2:08 pm
lol – dispensing is exactly right. Sadly I think it’s where our food is headed.
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April 12th, 2018 at 5:37 am
Mass production – the epitome of processed food. I eat very little of it as it is. This might be a boon for organic food producers too as people are grossed out by the increased processing. 🙂
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April 12th, 2018 at 6:36 pm
I don’t eat much processed food either so I hope it helps bring the price of organic dooooown too. 🙂
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April 10th, 2018 at 11:49 am
The problem is not in the technology to make the food on demand, it is that everyone’s tastes are different. To make the product mass marketable they have to create a way for people to customize what the machines produce. I think it will be great if people who were unable to create their own home cooked meals could get fresh created tasty good nutritious meals with a home machine. Clean up might be a problem? Hugs
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April 10th, 2018 at 1:25 pm
-grin- I’d query the nutrition but agree on the need to customise to taste. I imagine that eventually we’ll have 3D printers in every home. You’ll stock up on ‘materials’ and use ‘recipes’ to tinker with the taste.
What I /fear/ is that this tech. will be hijacked just like everything else and the ‘materials’ will be full of processed chemicals and minimal nutrition. We already know that vitamins don’t work half as well as fresh food in its natural state, so the chance of them working in an ultra processed state is…slim.
Unfortunately, such concerns have never stopped tech companies in the past and I see a day when printers will replace all other cooking appliances in the average home. Owning a stove/oven with the fuel needed to run it will become the province of the well-to-do only. 😦
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April 10th, 2018 at 4:46 am
It’d be fun to try, once, but like you I prefer ‘home-cooked’ food and made from living things.
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April 10th, 2018 at 1:29 pm
Yeah. I think though that our days are numbered. Pre-cooked, frozen, tinned, packaged food is now the norm for most people. Once the printers are cheap enough, convenience, low cost and no cooking skills will catapult them into food production for the common man. 😦
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April 9th, 2018 at 9:29 pm
Beginnings of those things in Star Trek where you told it what you wanted, and the food materialized.
An end to world hunger?
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April 10th, 2018 at 4:43 am
I hope not. I can’t think of anything worse than a robotic ‘soylent green’ scenario. Who controls the food controls the people.
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April 10th, 2018 at 1:31 pm
Exactly. At the moment, the multinational Agriceutical companies control the bulk of the seed. Hiding the provenance of the ‘materials’ used to create printed food is a logical step. 😦
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April 10th, 2018 at 1:56 pm
An end to world hunger? First World, maybe. We’ll just die of diet-induced heart attacks of something.
I doubt the Third World will be able to afford the tech for a long time to come. 😦
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